FLOOR PLAN BA­SICS

This leg­end shows the sym­bols you can ex­pect to find on the de­tailed plans you re­ceive from your ar­chi­tect or de­signer. Note specifics like elec­tri­cal sym­bols for switches, smoke de­tec­tors, fix­tures and out­lets — on your plan, you’ll want to make sure th­ese fit your in­tended fur­ni­ture ar­range­ment be­fore con­struc­tion be­gins, es­pe­cially if you are us­ing struc­tural in­su­lated pan­els. (Out­lets are more dif­fi­cult to retrofit through such ma­te­ri­als.) Re­fer to this leg­end of­ten when re­view­ing your con­struc­tion doc­u­ments to make sure you’re in­ter­pret­ing your de­sign cor­rectly.